(2)4 more ministers failed to pay pension premiums

(2)4 more ministers failed to pay pension premiums

TOKYO, Japan - Toshimitsu Motegi, state minister for Okinawa and Northern Territories, bows to express his apology at a news conference on April 28 after confessing to having failed to pay into the national pension program.

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